John McGahon (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to take the discussion back to the politics of this. What is the politics behind this legislation? We are talking about veterans. Are veterans a key demographic within the British electoral system that the Conservative Party is trying to get support from or to target? What are the actual politics behind putting that legislation through? The Conservative Party, since 2010, has gone from maybe moderate conservatism in some respects under David Cameron and the types of people who were in his cabinet to whatever you had with Theresa May to an extreme form of conservatism under Boris Johnson. Can the witnesses identify the turning point within the Conservative Party at which legislation like this became something it wanted to introduce? There is a reason it is being introduced 11 years into a Conservative Government as opposed to in the first or the second term. Something has changed. Has something changed in that there has been a sea change in the type of MPs who have been elected, or did the sea change occur under the premiership of Boris Johnson, or after Brexit, for example? My questions are what the politics behind this legislation are and who in the British electorate the Conservative Party is trying to appeal to by getting this across the line. Furthermore, at what stage within the Conservative Party did a sea change occur such that it felt that legislation like this would be a good idea?